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What’s the one thing you need to get your website started? Web hosting. Without using a web host for your WordPress sites, you won’t have full control over your sites. This is the main reason why serious bloggers (those who want to really make money blogging) consider using a better web host provider for their WordPress websites. The web hosting service you use on your websites matter a lot. A reliable and better web hosting gives your visitors a better user experience. If you choose the wrong web host for your sites, you will end up getting frequent downtime issues that can kill your overall readership thus affecting your sales and revenue. How web hosting affects your websites Loading time depends on your web host: Use tools like Page Speed, YSlow, Pingdom tools etc. to check your site performance and how fast your site is loading. By monitoring your site performance, you can optimize your loading times in a better way. Also note that your web site speed majorly depends … [Read more...] about How to Pick the RIGHT Web Host Provider for Your Sites

It seems like the world of guest blogging has become a new planet that anyone can inhabit, but it also seems like the transportation is one way only! By this I mean everyone is flooding into guest blogging because it’s an excellent way to gain back links, get exposure for your blog and your brand and even a new source for making money from content writing and link building. With all of the said, guest bloggers are everywhere and they are looking to submit content to top blogs on the internet… are they going to find your blog? How to Get More Guest Posts on Your Site If you have a blog of your own and looking to get more guest writers and authors on your site, what are your best options? There are plenty of ways to increase your blog exposure and letting your readers know you are accepting guest posts. Implement these ideas on your blog and you will see a huge increase in the amount of guest bloggers looking to write for your site.
Create the Right Blog Page – … [Read more...] about Five Tips to Attract Floods of Guest Bloggers to Your Site

SEO is a very big, deep sea. To fully understand SEO, we should know some basic SEO terms.
Crawling and indexing are two such terms.
If you have been in the web world for a while, you’ve at least heard the words:
Google Crawling and Indexing.
These are the two terms upon which the entire web world depends.
Let’s define, understand, and get some in-depth information about crawling and indexing.
Crawling:
When Google visits your website for tracking purposes. This process is done by Google’s Spider crawler.
Indexing:
After crawling has been done, the results get put onto Google’s index (i.e. web search).
Crawling basically means following a path.
In the SEO world, crawling means following your links and “crawling” around your website. When bots come to your website (any page), they follow other linked pages also on your website.
This is one reason why we create site maps, as they contain all of … [Read more...] about Get Google To Crawl Your Site FAST

Hello Shouters,
I remember that, I had told Harsh long ago that, when I start Guest Posting, ShoutMeLoud will be my first Destination. Let’s come to the main topic. As Bloggers, Webmaster’s & Site owners we know how important it is to get our sites or blogs to load faster. It not only makes our Readers happy but also plays a vital role in our On-Site SEO. Optimizing your site’s CSS File will result in better load time. And one of the most important techniques of Optimizing CSS is to Use CSS Sprites.
CSS Sprites in simple terms mean : Storing many Images in a Single File. Let’s quickly take a look at the purpose of using Sprites.
Purpose of Using CSS Sprites
CSS Sprites Decreases your Site’s Load Time
Every image you use in your site, counts to an HTTP Request. So more the images you use, the higher is the No. of HTTP Requests. And for Decreasing your Load Time you need to reduce your HTTP Requests. Also, Combining many small images into a Single Big … [Read more...] about How To Use CSS Sprites to Boost your Site Performance

Apart from being the most popular and widely supported content management system on the planet, one of the biggest draws of WordPress is its almost limitless customizability. In this post, we run through 30 WordPress plugins that we have either used or continue to use and can personally vouch for. These plugins will help you with speeding up your website, making it more secure, adding functionality, and just making it more beautiful. 1. Akismet Fight spam like a boss. Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet Web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen. It’s completely automated and facilitates easier moderation. URLs are shown in the comment body to reveal hidden or misleading links and moderators can see the number of approved comments for each user. A discard outright blocks the worst spam, saving you disk space and speeding up your site. Oh, and it’s free for … [Read more...] about 30 WordPress Plugins to Make Your Site Better, Faster, Stronger

I have already talked a lot about Panda and Penguin algo, which Google started rolling out from last year and now both of this algo is SEO’s night mare. Panda and penguin update changed the face of SEO and now SEO is getting more Social than just links and on site and on page optimization. Anyways, we are not going to talk about Post panda SEO strategy here, but we will look into a handy Panda and penguin checker tool, which will help us to determine which algo update hit our site. If you have noticed a traffic drop in your stats program, you are more likely to be hit by any of these algo and it’s updates. The very first thing which you need to determine is which algo hit your site. Since Panda and penguin algo works differently.
Panda hit usually happens due to low quality content, poor SEO stricture and few other factors, which you can read about in my earlier article on road to Panda recovery. Penguin hit usually happens due to low quality link and bad linking (Internal … [Read more...] about Find Which Google Algo Penalized your Site

Whenever we talk about blog monetization methods, AdSense is discussed as one of the favorite methods because it offers us recurring income and it is currently one of the highest paying ad networks. These days Google AdSense strongly considers the quality of pages where ads are displayed, and they take this very seriously. An email which no blogger or webmaster wants to receive from Google AdSense is one with the following subject line: “Google AdSense Ad Serving has been Disabled to Your Site“. A few days ago I joined the club of unfortunate recipients of this email. Following is the email which I received from the AdSense team in its entirety: Hello, During a recent review of your account we found that you are currentlydisplaying Google ads in a manner that is not compliant with our programpolicies(https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=48182&stc=aspe-1pp-en). … [Read more...] about Google AdSense Ad Serving has been Disabled to Your Site

We have already covered few topics on promoting a blog via forum. Few of them is how to promote your blog via forum, list of dofollow forums and 5 ways to drive traffic to your blog. Forums are a somewhat labor intensive but highly effective way to increase traffic and bring engaged visitors to your website or blog. While search traffic is more likely to click ads, forum traffic will leave you comments and buy your products. However if you go about using forums wrong, you will do more harm than good to your site. Not all forums are created equal. Some are small highly targeted affairs while others are large forums with very broad topics. Some forums are pro-business and welcome a little self promotion (Warrior Forums is a good example) while other forums are communistic affairs that boot anyone who even breaths about their business online. You will be making a serious commitment to any forum you plan to use for promotion, so shop like you would for a long term girlfriend/boyfriend. … [Read more...] about 5 Secrets to Promote Your Site Via Forum

No Doubt that Stumbleupon is also one of the popular social bookmarking site that have become most popular among webmasters. Many people find that Stumble Upon brings lots of targeted traffic to their site. If you know how to use stumble upon in the right way, your articles or the posts will get much attention from the visitors. Stumbleupon has a bookmarking toolbar, you can install on your browser. If you want to bookmark a page, just click the thumbs up button. You can also bookmark a page by easily with use of submission form from StumbleUpon. As like most of Social networking sites Stumbleupon also allows you to add friends to your network. The more friends you have, the more influences you will get on Stumble Upon. While adding the friends to your network you should add friends that are relevant to your niche or site which you are promoting. If friends you have added are not relevant to your niche then the site or the product which you promote through stumble upon will have a … [Read more...] about How to Use StumbleUpon for Driving Targeted Traffic to your Site

But increasing your search engine traffic is A LOT hard. There’s a quick way though! Getting Google Sitelinks. Are you looking for best practices of quickly getting Google sitelinks for your sites? Want to get Google sitelinks for WordPress sites without much hassle? If yes, this detailed Google sitelinks tutorial is exclusively for you. How many of you have observed the latest Google “search in sitelinks” bowix? Google used to show this type of search results only for most popular websites like YouTube etc but now a lot morepl other sites are also getting this feature.cr Basically the use of search in sitelinks is that your visitors don’t need to enter your website to perform various actions but they can directly perform the search process from the Google search box itself. Thus it removes a step of search process and it provides better user experience. Getting Google sitelinks for WordPress sites is really easy! Important Note: Google will only displays your … [Read more...] about How to QUICKLY Get Google SiteLinks for Your Site